[92] Brown, Cape Breton, 183. Parsons, Life of Pepperrell, 103. An anonymous letter, dated Louisbourg, 4 July, 1745, says that eighty-five cannon and six mortars have been found in the town.
[93] Memoirs of the Principal Transactions of the Last War, 40.
[94] “On fit venir cinq ou six cens Miliciens aux Habitans des environs; ce que, avec ceux de la Ville, pouvoit former treize à quatorze cens hommes.”—Lettre d’un Habitant de Louisbourg. This writer says that three or four hundred more might have been had from Niganiche and its neighborhood, if they had been summoned in time. The number of militia just after the siege is set by English reports at 1,310. Parsons, 103.
[95] Shirley to Newcastle, 17 June, 1745, citing letters captured on board a ship from Quebec.
[96] 14 March, old style.
[97] Gabarus Bay, sometimes called “Chapeau Rouge” Bay, is a spacious outer harbor, immediately adjoining Louisbourg.
[98] Bigot au Ministre, 1 Août, 1745.
[99] Pepperrell to Shirley, 12 May, 1745. Shirley to Newcastle, 28 October, 1745. Journal of the Siege, attested by Pepperrell and four other chief officers (London, 1746).
[100] Bigot says six thousand, or two thousand more than the whole New England force, which was constantly overestimated by the French.
[101] Belknap, ii.